Read the Biography of Robert Swindells at Channel4Learning.com. He writes books for young people, encouraging them to avoid harming others - a Buddhist philosophy. He has published over twenty titles since 1984. (more)
The North Norfolk Labour Party has put its weight behind the Slower Speeds initiative, and is looking for local support. I'm not sure if it's the same as the Transport 2000/Slower Speeds Initiative deal, but I've offered my support anyway ... (more)
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has spoken out today in favour of a blanket 30mph speed limit in all villages. Apparently most county councils have failed to do this, and some villages even have 60mph limits through them. This ... (more)
Having realised that eleven was plenty old enough to be riding fifty miles in a day, my youngest son Michael set himself a challenge of riding around Norfolk in three days - around 70 miles per day! He was inspired by my one-day round-Norfolk ... (more)
To see what broadband speed you're getting, go to www.speedtest.net and click "Begin Test" to check your connection's latency (network delay), download and upload speeds. Here are my results from 2011, using the fantastic Zen Internet ... (more)
Apparently the justification for installation of a speed camera will not have to be dependent on death/serious injury having taken place. Councils will be allowed to position them based on safety concerns. A spokesperson from BRAKE spoke ... (more)
It's not just download speeds that are increasing... it's now possible to get over 800kbps upload speeds! For most people (just doing web browsing and simple email) this wouldn't be noticeable, but if you're on a VPN or doing filesharing then ... (more)
Garmin has a really neat ANT+ speed-sensing device, which fits to the hub and does away with the need for a spoke-mounted magnet. It can also be bought in conjunction with a magnet-less cadence sensor, and if you don't want the cadence sensor ... (more)
The European Commission today announced its intention to bring in mandatory speed-limiting devices for all new cars, from 2022. For road safety advocates this sounds like a great idea in principle, but is it really the correct approach? ... (more)
Google is respected in the web development community for writing simple, usable code and then making it available for re-use by everyone. mod_pagespeed is just an example of this; it's a plugin module for the Apache web server, and is supposed ... (more)
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